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This is not for you in particular, but as a community, we need to stop adding pricing pages to interview projects one can do in an afternoon. We are better than

This is not for you in particular, but as a community, we need to stop adding pricing pages to interview projects one can do in an afternoon. We are better than this. Yesterday, it was a compressor that was a wrapper on ffpmg. Now, a literal wrapper of a library. Everyone wants to get rich, and I understand that, but seeing these projects have a pricing page is pretty annoying. Of course, I'll move ahead and not buy it, and I get it, but as developers, we need to see this era as an era to build better stuff, not just play these finite games.

szundi 3y ago
This project has value. You can introduce this to your project fast instead of being a good programmer.
- astrea 3y ago
  You can create this in the same amount of code it takes to implement it.
sgammon 3y ago
I don’t understand. As a founder, I worry not having a pricing page will signal to people that my product is way too expensive (“contact us”/fuck off you can’t afford it pricing). What other option is there? Do you mean these products should be self hosted or open source? I am honestly asking.
- warkanlock 3y ago
  My answer was not related to price (it's a free and open market!) but mostly to the communication behind it: Maybe you should focus on the value (rate limiting is not a value!) your product produces, the market you want to reach, etc., rather than just rate limiting because it's an issue addressed at almost every layer of the OSI model. If you sell your product as a developer, to developers, the developers will say why? because they know it's quite easy to set up a simple rate limit. Show us why rate limiting is not simple enough (I'm honestly with you here), and money will rain. Why is your product better than a two-line configuration? if that question isn't answered on your home page, I'll say, "Wtf, does it have a pricing page?". Maybe adopting a free-premium subscription model is better, in case you want to distribute rate limiting, but mostly I don't think it's about that, but maybe a company-level distribution, like, "I have a small business, I need to put something on top of it, this something needs to have permissions, accesses, etc, across my domain. If so, take my money." I didn't want to sound harsh, but it's a finite game, and I'm against those! (recommendation here to read Finite and Infinite game)
  - eidam 3y ago
    This is an excellent piece of feedback, very well noted, and will act.
- eidam 3y ago
  That is the reason I included the pricing already. I did not want to give "free" vibes. I launched a couple of other products in the past without pricing and it just made sad anyone who started using the product during the beta. I am not charging for rlimit, it is not even implemented yet. It is free to use while it is in beta, but there will be limits soon-ish, and I want to be upfront about future costs.

szundi 3y ago

This project has value. You can introduce this to your project fast instead of being a good programmer.

astrea 3y ago
You can create this in the same amount of code it takes to implement it.

sgammon 3y ago

I don’t understand. As a founder, I worry not having a pricing page will signal to people that my product is way too expensive (“contact us”/fuck off you can’t afford it pricing). What other option is there? Do you mean these products should be self hosted or open source? I am honestly asking.

warkanlock 3y ago
My answer was not related to price (it's a free and open market!) but mostly to the communication behind it: Maybe you should focus on the value (rate limiting is not a value!) your product produces, the market you want to reach, etc., rather than just rate limiting because it's an issue addressed at almost every layer of the OSI model. If you sell your product as a developer, to developers, the developers will say why? because they know it's quite easy to set up a simple rate limit. Show us why rate limiting is not simple enough (I'm honestly with you here), and money will rain. Why is your product better than a two-line configuration? if that question isn't answered on your home page, I'll say, "Wtf, does it have a pricing page?". Maybe adopting a free-premium subscription model is better, in case you want to distribute rate limiting, but mostly I don't think it's about that, but maybe a company-level distribution, like, "I have a small business, I need to put something on top of it, this something needs to have permissions, accesses, etc, across my domain. If so, take my money." I didn't want to sound harsh, but it's a finite game, and I'm against those! (recommendation here to read Finite and Infinite game)
- eidam 3y ago
  This is an excellent piece of feedback, very well noted, and will act.
eidam 3y ago
That is the reason I included the pricing already. I did not want to give "free" vibes. I launched a couple of other products in the past without pricing and it just made sad anyone who started using the product during the beta. I am not charging for rlimit, it is not even implemented yet. It is free to use while it is in beta, but there will be limits soon-ish, and I want to be upfront about future costs.